The Latest Breaking News on Food Insecurity

War has become a regular part of life for many children. Millions are victims and witnesses to the horrors of war. Recent estimates by researchers at the Peace Research Institute Oslo show that one in six children globally lives in a conflict zone, and Africa has the highest number of…

A media freedom group says local journalists in the African Sahel are facing increased security risks as extremist attacks and military coups have shaken the region in recent years

Ethiopia fears weapons could worsen security situation amid regional rows over water, territory and Red Sea access

Congo's minister of justice says nearly 1,700 ill inmates have been released from the country's largest prison as part of an effort to thin out Congo's overcrowded prisons

Heads of UN agencies say they cannot do their jobs ‘in the face of overwhelming need and ongoing violence’.

Protest had been planned against alleged disappearances and killings of government critics by security forces

Kenyan President William Ruto, on a visit to Haiti, said this weekend that he was open to Kenya's anti-gang mission in the country being converted to a full UN peacekeeping operation.

Leaders arrested following police chief’s warning of tough measures to block protest.

Sudanese health authorities say cholera has killed at least 388 people and sickened about 13,000 others over the past two months

Rohingya refugee Syed fled Myanmar for a second time last month, after he was forced to fight alongside the military that drove his family out of their homeland years earlier.

The UN's refugee chief questioned Sunday what future awaited the Sudanese people as the country's civil war rages, pushing its people ever further afield including to Uganda and Europe's maritime borders.